Japan and the United States are arranging to hold a summit between Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of the ruling Liberal ...

Shohei Ohtani singled in a crucial run and Roki Sasaki earned the save as the Los Angeles Dodgers held on to beat the ...

Teachers' working hours in Japan remained the longest among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ...

TOKYO -- Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Sanae Takaichi secretly met Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the opposition ...

Sanae Takaichi, the new chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on Tuesday appointed seasoned lawmakers as the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday described Japan's likely first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, as a ...

Japanese scientist Shimon Sakaguchi and two Americans were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for ...

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A 44-year-old man in Osaka Prefecture is worried about a new law in Japan that will ban using earphones while riding a ...

The United States will start imposing a 25 percent tariff on all medium- and heavy-duty truck imports from Nov. 1, President ...

Taro Aso, a former prime minister and influential kingmaker in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was appointed vice ...

A former MUFG Bank employee was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Tokyo court on Monday for stealing gold bars and money ...